Ash and coal sifter.



PATENTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

M. GOSSOY.

ASH AND GOAL SIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12. 1904.

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NO MODEL.

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ASH AND GOAL SIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1904. N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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PATENT ()FFICE.

MEYER UOSSOY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT BAILE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ASH AND COAL S IFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,683, dated September 6, 1904:.

Application filed January 12, 1904. Serial No. 188,776. (No model.)

To a. [If/b07111 i/ may concern:

Be it known that .I, M nYnn CossoY, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash and Coal Sifters, of which the following is a specilication.

My invention has relation to a sitter or screen particularly adapted for the separation of ashes from cinders or coal, and in such connection it relates to the construction and arrangement of such a sitter or screen.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an ash and coal sifter or screen consisting of a chute extending from a point in or near the ash-pit of a range to the cellar and having an opening at its top and between its ends for the reception of the ashes to be sifted. the chute having a flap or auxiliary lid normally closing each opening and divided into two chambers separated by a screen or netting, each chamber having an outlet to conduct, respectively, the coarse and fine particles to separate receptacles for the same.

The nature and scope of my present invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a sitter embodying main features of my invention. Fig. 2 isafront elevational view, partly in section, of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, enlarged, of the lid normally closing the upper inlet to the chute of the Sifter; and Fig. A is a vertical sectional view of a modified form of sitter adapted to extend from the ash-pit of the range and opening directly into said ash-pit.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3 of the drawings, (1 represents the hearth or floor of a range adjacent to the ash-pit of said range, and 7) represents a chute extending through the floor wand terminating in the cellar in two outlets b and If. The upper end of the chute 7) is normally closed by a gravity-lid (1, having, as

particularly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, the two side wings (l' and cross-strip (Z weighting the lid (Z so that the same turns upon its pivots (Z to normally close the lid down upon the chute b. The cross-strip (7 acts, further, as a stop to prevent the lid (Z from turning too far back upon its pivots d, as shown in Fig. 2. Below the lid (l is arranged a flap or auxiliary lid 0, pivoted,as at c, and counter-weighted, as at a, so as normally to close the interior of the chute 7) when no materials pass through the upper end of the chute. The materials when dumped upon the flap (x will depress the flap and slide therefrom into the chute 7) proper. Intermediate of the ends of the chute b is arranged a second opening f, having a flap or auxiliary lidf, corresponding in detail with the flap 0. The opening f permits of ashes being placed in the chute I; from the cellar or apartment below the hearth u. A screen or wire-netting separates the chute into two chambers, the upper chamber of which leads to the outlet 0 and conducts off the cinders and unconsumed fuel, while the lower chamber leads to the outlet and conducts to the outlet 7/ the liner materials, such as ashes, &c. A telescoping tube IL connects this outlet 7) with a box or ash-receptacle 1' and insures the deposit of the line materials in the box 1' without dispersion.

In Fig. A the chute 7) leads from the ash-pit Z' of a range and at its upper end is provided with an extensible tube 11/, arranged to be pulled upward to the grate K" of the range when said grate is to be emptied. In this form the gravity-lid (Z is dispensed with and an ordinary lid m used to prevent draft through the chute 7) into the ash-pit Z.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a coal and ash sifter, a chute having an opening at the upper end, a screen or netting arranged within the chute and separating the same into two compartments having outlets at or near the lower end of the chute, an extensible closure, substantially as described,

for the upper end of the chute, automatieallymy signature in the presence of two subscriboperated eounterweighted flaps located Within ing' Witnesses. the chute and a telescoping tube provided in one of the outlets of the chute in the lower MEYER GOSSOY' 5 part thereof and leading to a receptacle, subl/Vitnesses:

stantially as described. J. VVALTER DOUGLASS,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set THOMAS M. SMITH. 

